Today's Scripture Readings

Saints, Feasts, and Readings for 2/17/2013

Prayer Before Reading Holy Scripture

O Master Who loves mankind, illuminate our hearts with the pure light of Your divine knowledge and open the eyes of our mind to understand the teachings of Your Gospel. Instill in us also the fear of Your blessed commandments, that we may overcome all carnal desires, entering upon a spiritual life and understanding and acting in all things according to Your holy will. For You are the enlightenment of our souls and bodies, O Christ God, and to You we give glory together with Your eternal Father and Your all-holy, gracious and life-giving Spirit, now and ever and forever. Amen.

Epistle Reading: 1 Timothy 4:9-15

This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance.

For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because
we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of
those who believe.

These things command and teach.

Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the
believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

Till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to
doctrine.

Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to
you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.

Meditate on these things; give yourself entirely to them,
that your progress may be evident to all.

Gospel Reading: Luke 19:1-10

Then Jesus entered and passed through Jericho.

Now behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus who was a chief tax
collector, and he was rich.

And he sought to see who Jesus was, but could not because of
the crowd, for he was of short stature.

So he ran ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see Him,
for He was going to pass that way.

And when Jesus came to the place, He looked up and saw him, and
said to him, "Zacchaeus, make haste and come down, for today I must stay at
your house."

So he made haste and came down, and received Him joyfully.

But when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, "He has gone
to be a guest with a man who is a sinner."

Then Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Look, Lord, I give
half of my goods to the poor; and if I have taken anything from anyone by
false accusation, I restore fourfold."

And Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house,
because he also is a son of Abraham;

"for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which
was lost."

Saints and Feasts

Isidore of Pelusium; Nicholas the Confessor; Hieromartyr Abramius; John the Righteous, Bishop of Irinopolis; Theodosios the Righteous; Joseph the New Martyr of Aleppo; Afterfeast of the Presentation of Our Lord and Savior in the Temple

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The Old Calendar readings are from the New King James Version of the Bible.